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Azure App Service

Quickly build, deploy, and scale web apps and APIs globally with a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS).
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OVERVIEW

Create AI-ready web apps in the cloud

  • Quickly develop and run intelligent web apps in the cloud with fully managed platform tools, databases, and systems.
  • Protect your apps with built-in security features and compliance certifications.
  • Let developers focus on developing great software without worrying about hardware using pre-coded application components.
  • Pay only for the compute you use, with flexible plans ranging from free tier to large shared and dedicated options.
  • Take advantage of AI-assisted tooling, expert guidance, and managed services from Azure to help assess, migrate, and optimize your applications for the cloud with minimal management overhead.
FEATURES

Migrate and modernize on your own terms

Develop in your preferred languages

Get first-class support for ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core, Java, Tomcat, JBoss EAP, Node.js, PHP, and Python in containers or running on both Windows and Linux.
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Automate deployment and scaling

Reduce time and effort, save costs, and enable reliable and efficient operation with automatic workload management.
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Incorporate Zero Trust principles

Verify every access request with extensible built-in authentication and authorization (“easy auth”) capabilities.
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Gain high availability and resiliency

Ensure that apps remain available during unexpected outages with a 99.99% uptime service-level agreement (SLA).
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Securely run apps with single-tenant App Service Environments

Use isolated, high-scale hosting to run mission-critical applications with enhanced security, network isolation, and full control over app resources.
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Build WordPress sites on Azure App Service

Create your WordPress site effortlessly on Azure App Service, a fully managed platform optimized for security and performance.
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Security

Embedded security and compliance

34,000
Full-time equivalent engineers dedicated to security initiatives at Microsoft.
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15,000 
Partners with specialized security expertise.
 
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>100
Compliance certifications, including over 50 specific to global regions and countries.
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Pricing

Take advantage of flexible pricing plans

For more details, visit the Windows and Linux PaaS pricing pages.
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GUIDANCE AND TOOLS

Accelerate success with free technical guidance, resources, and tools

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Build and modernize AI apps

Combine the power of AI, cloud-scale data, and modern app development to create highly differentiated digital experiences.
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Run a local SLM in a sidecar container

Separate AI logic from your application logic to help upgrade your models as needed without affecting your application.
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Deploy an application that uses OpenAI

Create intelligent apps using Azure App Service with popular AI frameworks like LangChain and Semantic Kernel connected to OpenAI.
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Create intelligent apps with App Service

Infuse AI into your applications by adding an Azure OpenAI service to a Java 17 Spring Boot application using the Azure SDK.
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Authenticate Azure App Service to Azure OpenAI

Access protected Azure OpenAI resources easily and securely using a managed identity from Microsoft Entra.
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Announcing Azure App Service Premium version 4

Explore Azure App Service's Premium v4 plan for better cost-performance, higher app capacity, and enterprise-grade performance of web apps.
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CUSTOMER STORIES

See what customers are doing with Azure App Service

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“A major part of KymChat’s scalability comes from Azure App Service, which allows it to automatically scale based on live metrics and events within the business. We can add new use cases and ingest new data sets without any degradation of service.”
Robert Finlayson: Senior Product Manager, KPMG Australia

Products

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“Thanks to our PaaS setup with Azure, we’ve migrated 700 IT systems in three years. That’s a massive scale of IT change.”
Andrew Haigh, Principal Platform Engineer, Asda

Products

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Azure API Management
  • Azure App Service
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“Nexi’s services and products are technology based, so modernization has been a natural path of the solution evolution as technologies enabled new opportunities.”
Lars Einar Harberg, IT Director eCommerce Payments, Nexi Group

Products

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Azure DevOps
  • Azure Kubernetes Service
  • Azure App Service
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“We knew with Microsoft and moving our AI workloads to Azure, we’d get the expert support, plus scalability, security, performance, and resource optimization we needed.”
Alex Goldsmith, CEO, Medigold Health

Products

  • Azure AI Services
  • Azure App Service
  • Azure SQL Database
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RESOURCES

Plan your modernization

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Analyst report

Microsoft is a Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Application Platform

Azure’s comprehensive platform supports app modernization and AI innovation with seamless Azure and GitHub integration.1
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White paper

The Business Value of Migrating and Modernizing IT Estate with Microsoft Azure

This IDC study highlights how organizations are unlocking significant business outcomes—improved agility, scalability, performance, and security—by modernizing to Microsoft Azure.
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FAQ

  • Azure App Service provides a framework for developing and running apps in the cloud. PaaS providers host and maintain the platform's servers, networks, storage, and other computing resources. Developers use the platform to build apps without having to manage backups, security solutions, upgrades, or other administrative tasks. App Service also includes tools, services, and systems that support the web application lifecycle.
  • You can run web and API apps in Azure App Service at scale while working seamlessly with other first- or third-party solutions to meet the requirements of the app solution you envision.
  • Azure App Service is available in most Azure regions.
  • Azure App Service pricing is based on plan tiers with varying features and capabilities. For more details, see pricing.
  • We guarantee that apps running via a customer subscription will be available 99.99% of the time. Get details.
    • Shared Compute: Includes Free and Shared tiers, where apps run on shared Azure VMs with limited resources. Ideal for development and testing, but cannot scale out.
    • Dedicated Compute: Covers Basic, Standard, Premium, PremiumV2, and PremiumV3 tiers. Apps run on dedicated VMs, with scale-out options increasing at higher tiers.
    • Isolated Compute: The IsolatedV2 tier offers dedicated VMs within private virtual networks, ensuring both compute and network isolation with maximum scalability.
  • Azure App Service provides a fully managed platform for building, deploying, and scaling web applications, APIs, and mobile backends. With global reach and compliance with industry standards, Azure App Service offloads the cloud infrastructure management from your developers, so they can focus on innovation and creating enterprise-grade applications.

    It supports various programming languages and frameworks, including .NET, Java, Python, and Node.js. Key benefits include automatic scaling, high availability, integrated authentication, and CI/CD capabilities for streamlined deployments. Additionally, it offers built-in monitoring, security features, custom domains, and SSL certificates. Developers can leverage its integration with Azure services like Azure SQL Database and Azure DevOps, while ensuring robust performance and high scalability.
  • Azure App Service is PaaS. Learn more.
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    Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms, Tigran Egiazarov, Mukul Saha, 4 August 2025.

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